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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

1 Chronicles 17

Once 2 Samuel 7 was done, this chapter appeared as 74% guessed by pairs of words or better. So here it is, but there are little differences in many verses, sometimes a word change or a word or letter omitted, sometimes spelling. And I have tweaked a word or two in 2 Samuel 7 as well. Ambiguous antecedents, and tenses. I sometimes don't pay enough attention to the preterit. Given the conflation of time expressed in the Biblical imagery of redemption, I am sometimes not sure how to express tense, mood or aspect, (having first learned binyanim entirely from Hebrew poetry).

The music is below. You can scroll through the windows independently to compare. Note the ornament on place. This is a highlighting of a significant word, (maqom). All theology might be summarized by 'finding ourselves in the place just right'.

Now that phrase that JB found objectionable is interpreted here by the Chronicler.
וְזֹ֛את תּוֹרַ֥ת הָאָדָ֖ם becomes וּרְאִיתַ֗נִי כְּת֧וֹר הָאָדָ֛ם הַֽמַּעֲלָ֖ה. Is this an early example of textual emendation? Or is this even more objectionable, the course of human evolution? JB is pretty poor and dated (1962) You show me as it were a line of men! Some of the readings I put before you are incoherent. One teacher said to me, the translation must make sense. But really? Do all things have to make sense? By all means make sense of it. Make it real and concrete. But the words may still be puzzling.

And I have set up a place for my people, Israel, and I will plant him, and he will dwell under it, and he will not shudder any more,
and the children of injustice will not repeatedly wear him out as at first,

And who is as your people? as Israel, one nation in the earth?
that God led to ransom for himself a people, and to define for yourself a name of great and fearful things, to expel before your people that you have ransomed from Egypt, nations.